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INTRODUCTION. 

Knowing of no phrenological work free from what appears to 
me great defects in its explanations of human nature in its 
connections with the brain, and thinking any aid would be wel- 
comed, in advancing this noblest of sciences from its infantile 
condition toward maturity, I offer the following synopsis. 

Gall, the first successful explorer in this field, and his succes- 
sors, Spurzheim, Combe, and others ; strong men and among the 
most meritorious of the race, have been merely pioneers in this 
philosophy of human existence, in its conditions, workings, in- 
activities, regulations, sufferings, enjoyments. 

In extension and modification of the current philosophy of the 
brain and of humanity, many of my opinions here offered do not 
fully accord with the publications in this field. To extend our 
knowledge here we want the investigations and more or less 
erring and differing conclusions of thousands of men confering 
together; as, to improve the greatly imperfect English diction- 
aries it would be well to organize a congress of a hundred or 
so philologists ; for inventing, another congress of a thousand or 
so inventors : as there will be, in the future, congresses for a 
thousand purposes. The great John Stewart Mill said: " Di- 
versity of opinion is not an evil, but a good, until mankind are 
much more capable than at present of recognizing all sides of 
the truth. " We know much of this human philosophy, but 
have yet to learn greatly more ; though much less of the 
groundwork than the application. Horace Mann said of the 
ancient leaders in philosophy, that " they were great men, but 
with not enough of great men around them to correct their 
errors, and as a consequence they propagated more of error than 
of truth." This is evidently the case with Gall, Spurzheim, and 
their successors, in this complicated science of the human race, 
in this new and vast field. Men of this century are raising it 
from its infancy. Generations yet unborn will bring it into 
stalwart maturity, as a full, God-given revelation and philoso- 
phy of the spiritual and physical mechanisms which produce and 
regulate all human thought and feeling and conduct ; holding all 
the sciences and philosophies based on man ; intellectual, phy- 
sical, political, social, moral, religious ; giving a full explanation 
of humanity, in all its savagism, barbarism, civilization, through 
all its past and future. 

Outside of its teachings for the social organizations and life of 
humanity in the future, this physiological science shows men as 
one of its lesser aids, their natural rank in the human family — 
the amount of power, trained or untrained, in each of their 
faculties, sentiments, affections, passions ; pointing out the 



4 INTRODUCTION. 

fields of action where they can do best, natural adaptations for 
sexual congeniality with particular characters, unfolding the 
internal of the forces which regulate human life ; and here — 
where, in making a life choice, we should have much knowledge — 
may be made available in extending acquaintance as help to early 
and better selection ; \tp shows men, in brief, fully themselves, 
aud the life through which they may the most obtain enjoyment, 
— in and out of its means, the only possible object of value — of 
which, of the race since its dawn, not one in hundreds has ob- 
tained half of what he has been susceptible. Though men ate 
always much less in judgment than they suppose, more than 
nine-tenths even of all that the wisest take and hold as truth 
being merely uncertain opinion derived from partial knowledge 
mixed with error ; yet, with most men, undeveloped from train- 
ing, is much capacity of which they are ignorant, for success and 
enjoyment. Persons desirous of extensive acquaintance with 
man, through this physiological and psychological science, should 
read all the leading works upon it ; being careful in deciding 
upon this or that, as truth or error ; remembering that, with all 
of us, at best, beyond settled facts in science and philosophy — 
which cover but little ground — much error will inevitably be ac- 
cepted as truth, and much truth rejected as error. 

It is hardly necessary, at this day, in opposition to ignorant 
skeptics and dishonest pretenders, to state that the closest com- 
parison has been made between brain development and char- 
acter, with hundreds of thousands of the world's well-known 
individuals, and that there is nothing in physiology known with 
more certainty than that each faculty, sentiment, affection, pas- 
sion, has its own part of brain through which it acts. 

As a portion of our differences and extensions from the other 
writers on the brain, as the hand should not be named the 
Gatherer of Flowers, from like reason, the part by others named 
Mirthfulness — which perceives not merely the ridiculous, but the 
incongruous from the congruous, in all science, philosophy, busi- 
ness — I call Incongruity ; and which is a fruitful source of prem- 
ises. The part named Weight — having comprehension, not 
merely of gravity, but, far as accessible, all the other forces, in 
their relations to effects, led to its work, as in mathematics, by 
the higher faculties — calling this Force, another chief source ol 
premises. The part named Imitation — operating, not merely 
in representing imitations, but in all departments of representa- 
tion where man works — calling this Representativeness, The 
part named Constructiveness — which merely organizes, for Rep- 
resentativeness with its assistants to construct, represent — call- 
ing this Organization. The part named Causality — which per- 
ceives, not merely causes and effects, which it does by reason- 
ing, but, through reasoning, discovers all the conclusions in 
physical logic; doing nothing but perceive conclusions in prem- 
ises, and premises in conclusions — calling this Physical Rea- 
sonality. The part named Comparison — which does nothing but 



INTRODUCTION 5 

perceive likenesses — calling this Similarity ; and which, with its 
spiritual department, is the most fruitful source of premises. 
The part named Ideality — which loves perfection in all beauty, 
all existence — calling tins Perfectiveness ; and which leads to 
imagination, in like way as do more or less all the other ele- 
ments. The part named Combativeness — which not merely 
combats, but impels to execution over the whole field of busi- 
ness — calling this Executiveness. The part named Destructive- 
ness — which desires not merely to destroy, but to have all exe- 
cution and provision thorough —calling this Thoroughness. The 
part named Firmness — which, in its natural work, desires con- 
sistent life in accordance with the natural desires of all the other 
parts — calling this Consistency ; though this sentiment, as of the 
others, from impertect philosophy, &c, has wrought much in 
the wrong and little in the right. The part named Conscien- 
tiousness — which desires impartiality — calling this Equitiveness. 
The part named Self-esteem — which loves, not its possessor, as 
do none of the other elements, but that which is dignified in all 
life— calling this Dignity. The part named Individuality— hav- 
ing power of perceiving the indivisible parts, far as accessible, 
of all individualities— calling this Indivisibility ; for similar rea- 
sons, changing the names of about a dozen other parts ; also 
claiming that the natural food of each of more than half a score 
of the organs of the brain is a perfect life ; and that all the other 
parts require, though of course but partially desire, the same ; 
claiming also, that man's higher nature, as well as his lower, has 
operated more in the wrong than in the right, because of im- 
perfect philosophy, unnatural conditions, and unfavorable cir- 
cumstances; and that, in the future, completion in knowledge 
of human nature will lead to completion in circumstances, con- 
ditions, and rightful life ; and that the religion, the requirements- 
of matured humanity, will consist in managing to invigorate and 
o-l^Wj^nlness to all the human soul its natural food, perfection 
of^J[HL and provision for enjoyment. 

^■^ B. H. W. 

March, 1808. \ 



PHRENOLOGY. 



The Human Brain. 

Human capabilities in the different departments of 
thought, sentiment, affection, and passion, depend on 
size and condition of the brain, in its different parts, as 
their instruments, its quality, in fineness and firmness, 
depth and number of its folds, amount of nervous and 
vital power, with the mode of lite of the mental and 
physical system. The physical capabilities depend on 
size and condition of their body and nerve organs — the 
location of the latter of which are not fully ascertained 
— the general vital conditions and manner of life. 

With large development of the vital system, lungs, 
heart, &c, with numerous and deep brain folds, there 
will often be in all the other parts, mental and physical, 
twice the strength that there is when these vital parts 
are small, and the brain with few and shallow folds. 

Each faculty, sentiment, affection, and passion has 
two brain organs, one within each side half of the head ; 
the size of which, except in the central range, from in- 
divisibility to parentiveness, is determined, with slight 
variation, by their distance from the ear, at the outside 
of the head, the distance here between them, and their 
circumference on the surface; the central range, with 
slight modification, by their circumference at the sur- 
face, and distance from the ear. 

The size of the organs is more or less modified from 
their appearance by the varying thickness of the skull, 
which is generally thickest with those of roughly mascu- 
line build, particularly over the organs around the eyes. 
Long continuance of activity of organs considerably les- 
sens thickness of skull over them, and slightly expands 
its surface ; while inactivity, long continued, causes the 
skull over organs to become considerably increased in 
thickness, and to very slightly lessen in expansion of 
surface. 



8 THE HUMAN BRAEST. 

The amount of nervous power depends on size, qual- 
ity, and condition of the nerves, depth and number of 
biain folds, and the power of the vital system, and is in- 
dicated by the proportional degree of strength and ac- 
tivity in the physiognomical appearance in connection 
with the vital conditions. 

The amount of vital power is determined by size, con- 
dition, and quality in fineness and firmness of the vital 
organs, and their organs in the lower branch of the brain. 

Muscular power depends on size and condition of the 
muscles, and the assistance received from the nervous 
and vital systems. 

Fineness or coarseness of quality, with the whole in- 
terior system, is indicated by fineness or coarseness of 
skin ; while firmness of quality is indicated by a particu- 
lar firm physiognomical appearance, and is in instances 
chiefly hereditary, in other instances chiefly acquired by 
cultivation. 

The -depth and number of brain folds are indicated by 
the extent of hill-like appearance in the skull over the 
organs, and by the proportion of the mental expression 
to the other conditions than the folds which produce this 
expression ; and are in the same degree with all the or- 
gans in each head. 

Regarding size, most great men, intellectually, have 
large heads and brain organs ; though there is a small 
number of poets, orators, writers, &c, distinguished for 
power, who have heads and brain organs little more than 
average in size ; yet of good balance, good quality and 
condition, with deep and numerous brain folds, and great 
nervous and vital energy; the same as average? sized 
men, in rare instances, astonish with their great physical 
strength; and as there are insects able to move bodies a 
hundred times their own weight, and others, weighing 
less than a grain, able to move, at a leap, a yard and a 
half; while a creature the size of a man, with power 
equal to this, in proportion to its weight, could move 
hundreds of miles at a leap. 

Regarding phrenological nomenclatures, all of them 
are imperfect; though in our consideration we have 
made improvement, having modified the names as well 



PHRENOLOGY. 9 

: its explanations of most of the organs. We are far from 
: having complete knowledge of many portions of the 
". brain, sind of some small parts are in extreme ignorance. 
It is evident that the brain, as with other parts, to be 
reflective ntti&t be in healthy, active condition ; and hence 
: many persons, "with moral and religious organs greatly 
< 'developed, from inactivity here, are much immoral and 
irreligious ; also, many, with these higher parts deficient, 
: are religions and moral from favorable philosophy, train- 
ing, and circumstances, with the lower motives. And 
.as we occasionally find preachers, pugilists, and others, 
with extreme development in all the animal passions, and 
great deficiency in all the moral and religious parts, 
•through a policy founded upon their lower elements, 
.holding in extreme subjection their whole animal nature, 
from this fact, with others, we are positive in the con- 
eclusion that, some scores of ages hence, when equitj^ shall 
■prevail, particularly with labor and its fruits, as, for, the 
good of all, the suffering lower and suffering higher 
classes both will demand, and the race, in the machinery 
of thought and feeling, is brought into normal conditions, 
and the then understood required arrangements are 
made for it, the whole human race will be capable of and 
led into correct life. And we claim here are two, broad, 
foundation wants of humanity, grandly looming upward 
in our day, for the glory of distant ages: first, under 
Equiti ven ess, seconded by all the other higher and even 
lower sentiments and elements, equality in connection 
with labor and its fruits, with the consequent leisure for 
enjoyment and general improvement; second, and as a 
consequence of the first, and as a part of the improve- 1 
ment from it, the removal of abnormal conditions of the 
machinery of thought and feeling. And, from the fact, 
that many, predominant in power and activity of all. the 
animal passions, and much deficient in natural endow- 
ment for self-control, yet have full control of all their 
animal nature ; from this, with other facts, we are forced, 
to the conclusion that .want of ability to hold in subjec- 
tion powerful animal elements comes chiefly from an 
abnormal condition of the organs of passion, which de- 
fect! ^e claim the wisdom and skill of the future will be 
sufficient to remove. 



10 PHRENOLOGY. 



Physical Sexuality. 



Generally termed " Amativeness." Love of the 
physical nature of the opposite sex. This is one of 
the strongest of human elements, and, rightly regu- 
lated, capable of a large amount of enjoyment; but, 
through pervertion, has been one of the chief enemies of 
mankind ; also, prevention of its rightful activity and 
the fulfillment of its higher designs has been an evil of 
extensive magnitude over all civilization. It cannot be 
otherwise, generally, as with other forms of evil, through 
all the great flood tide of error, till, of wrong, we shut 
off the fountains instead of dipping from the streams as 
hitherto ; till, far in the future, society is remodeled, and 
full provision made for obedience to all natural human 
law together, for an engineering of the race, individually 
and collectively, in accordance with the human constitu- 
tion. This element has its bliss mysteriously in physi- 
cal unity. In fullness of life, in favorable conditions, its 
ecstas} 7 is flashed from even the mere touch of the finger 
upon the cheek. Under the full influence of this element, 
in rightful conditions and life, any personal contact 
thrills with enjoyment, as contact with fire thrills with 
pain. In unnatural physical conditions, and the error of 
thoughtless ignorance, this element has not one-tenth of 
the enjoyment which it has in rightful conditions under 
correct philosophy. In the imperfections of the present, 
because of evils necessitated by other evils, man, in gen- 
eral, must, at least will, very often, be the agent in this 
department, of both rule and ruin. In the better regu- 
lations of the future, woman, sexually, in normal con- 
ditions, as science predicts, shall hold the reins, and this 
ruin then never come from her. A line extended from 
the middle of the back of the ear backward about an 
inch and a half, terminates at the outer edge of the 
part, which is a nerve fountain of this element, and the 
regulation of the main portion of the muscular system. 
Average size, witli average-sized heads, at surface, about 
two inches wide, one and a half high. 



PHRENOLOGY. 11 

Spiritual Sexuality. 

By others called "Conjugality." Love of the spiritual 
nature of the opposite sex. This element, with all, is 
capable of being an exhaustless fountain of highest bliss 
while life endures, yet, because of erroneous life and 
philosophy and organization of society, it has generally 
been more or less dormant and ungratified through 
nearly all of life, and to the race imparted not one-tenth 
of the enjoyment of which it is susceptible. Average 
surface of organ about one and a half inch in diameter ; 
located above and joining Physical Sexuality. 

Within the realm of human thought and sensation, 
than these sexual elements, there is nothing more ad- 
mirable. They have the similitude of the whirlwind, 
the electric telegraph, the lamb, the dove, the rainbow — 
the most ruling of forces and the richest of beauty. 
With their controlling and absorbing power they have 
spell-bound the human race. An unseen, raging lire is 
here, known in its wide results, over a globe, with its 
weal and woe, ceaselessly burning and spreading as 
widely and irresistibly as the storm that would hurl 
cities from their bases and sweep forests into the sea. 
Yet, as the result of other error and neglect, inevitable 
hitherto, and to be so ages longer, outside of a world of 
wretched, uncongenial sexual union, millions of each 
sex to-day, though craving; here more than for aught 
else, give this powerful element to starvation and death. 
This astonishingly absurd starvation here, with all other 
starvations of the human elements, prevailing every- 
where in srinrtHM excess, though unavoidable hith- 
erto, will, we claim, in the advance of civilization, ages 
hence, be consigned to the historical wretchedness of a 
barbarous past. 

Pahentiveness. 

Love of children. Located at the termination of a 
line drawn from the eye to the top of the ear, and con- 
tinued directly to the center of the backhead ; occupying 
on the surface, in average size, about one inch and a 
half square. 



12 PHRENOLOGY. 

Friendship. 

Love of friends. This element is' c&pable of much 
more enjoyment than it generally receives, because of 
torpidity, monopoly of time and Energy in other chan- 
nels, the erroneous organization and inharmony of 
society. As through this element we love those who 
are like us in our better life, and as we accept that we 
are in the ' 'image of God," we must conclude that He 
loves us through this element more the more our life is 
like His. Located each side of Physical Continuity, 
extending a little lower; average size on the surface 
about one inch and a half square. 

Physical Continuity. 

By others called "Inhabitiveness." Desire for continu- 
ance of affection and attention in relation to physical 
nature — -home, business, country, sexual companions, 
children, parents, friends, &c. Located above and join- 
ing Parentiveness ; average surface about one inch and 
a half wide, and a half inch high. 

Spiritual Continuity. 

By others called " Continuity." Desire to continue 
all attention and affection in connection with spiritual 
nature; with family, associates, subjects of thought, 
business affairs, and so on. Located at the upper part 
of Physical Continuity ; average surface about one-half 
inch high and one inch and a half wide. These two ele- 
ments desire merely constancy of affection and attention. 
One has to do with that only which is perceptible to the 
eye; the other with that which is perceivable only in 
thought, as of all the other organs which have a physi- 
cal and spiritual department. They favor stability of 
character, union for life with the sexes, with parents, 
children, mmd friends; thus favoring a social system 
and life which would secure these results; removing the 
present extensive necessity for divorce, separation, 
fickleness. And in these elements is one of the great 
laws for the future; availing little hitherto, under which, 
in the sexual relations in particular, far from now, in 
fullness of rightful regulation and maturity of social or- 



PHRENOLOGY. 13 

ganization, clear from evils necessitated by evils, away 
from the hitherto essential, yet often extremely galling 
slavery of political power, the free will of parties in 
sexual union, will doubtless be the only, and a most rul- 
ing, unity binding force. 

VlTATIVENESS. 

A propensity which desires protection to the physical 
system, and stimulates to the directing of nervous energy 
into the vital parts, thereby aiding, both involuntarily 
and through the will, in capability of endurance, of re- 
sisting disease, &c. Located below and back of Thor- 
oughness, partly under the ear, when large, turning it 
outward and forward. 

EXECUTIVENESS. 

By others called " Combativeness." Desire for execu- 
tion. Located at the termination of a direct line ex- 
tending from the eye to the top of the ear, then back an 
inch and a half to an inch and three-fourths ; occupying 
at surface in average size about one inch and a half 
square. 

Thoroughness. 

By others called "Destructiveness." Desire for thor- 
oughness in all execution and provision. Located at the 
top of the ear; in average size extending about one inch 
and a half high and two in width. This and the preced- 
ing organ give stimulus to investigation and thus aid the 
judgment, as do the organs above them; adding to per- 
sistence and thoroughness in thought. 

Alimentiveness. 

Love of the nutriment essential to life. This organ, 
under right conditions, directs and confines its regard to 
the elements of which the natural physical constitution 
is composed, and from which its action and heat are 
produced, desiring each of these elements in proper 
amount, as nature has compounded them in her rich 
productions. Right regulation of this element, as of 
other parts, when naturalized to it, affords much more 
gratification than misreouilation, indirectly to itself and 



14 PHRENOLOGY. 

every other part, imparting more enjoying power to the 
whole. Scientific regulation of this, as of the other 
leading elements, is indispensable to the highest condi- 
tion for activity and enjoyment of every part of human 
nature; though such regulation in general is neither 
desirable nor possible for this century of deficient and 
erroneous philosophy, and other errors and deficiencies, 
with its flood-tide of depraved excitement under full 
sway, wherein every violation and deficiency necessi- 
tates, and is necessitated by, other violations and defi- 
ciencies, the imperfect often being requisite from, and 
making requisite, other imperfections. As from his 
grain the horse fully sustains his fire and energy, his 
fleetness, and endurance of hard labor, and cold of even 
the frigid zone, so man, naturalized to correct life, with 
vigorous nutritive system, in the far future w T ill be able, 
from the same and the like of other of nature's correct 
compounds, to sustain — and can do it in completeness 
in no other way — all his nature. But men in this, in 
our day, with truth and error for their guide, have gone 
into wild fanaticism, terminating, under the poet's dan- 
ger from " a little knowledge," in many instances, in 
suicide. All-important truths have suffered from such 
men, as these men have suffered from the truths or the 
ignorance with them. Alimentiveness is located at the 
upper and forward connection of the ear to the head, 
occupying surface on the average about one inch square. 

Provisionality. 

By others called "Acquisitiveness." Desire to pro- 
vide for the future, in reference to all the essentials for 
enjoyment, desiring acquisitions and expenditures, &c., 
as means to this end, for self, family, friends, humanity. 
On the ocean of life, hitherto, all mankind have Been, 
in paper barks, adrift, amid rocks and storms, ever, erro- 
neously, in many ways, subject to ruin ; and, in the 
common unfavorable circumstances and unnatural con- 
ditions, in which all are liable to be in this lottery-like 
social system, the best are capable of falling so far, and 
yet be considered sane, that they would, to quench the 
burnings of this with other passions, exhaust your re- 



PHRENOLOGY. 15 

sources and see you sink in pauperism ; yet, as showing 
the good which exists in spite of this external error, 
there are hundreds of thousands capable of being im- 
pelled into the extremes of wrong, who would, in in- 
stances, breaking from these unnatural impellings, from 
highest motive, with no thought of self or the future, 
eagerly, joyously throw down their lives in your defense. 
The misdirectings of this passion, the necessity of other 
imperfections, has been the source of evil to immense 
extent. In the newly kindling lie-lit from the human 
brain is full provision for bringing order out of this 
chaos ; yet, the complete philosophy of this element is 
for the future, mainly waiting for development. As 
with other parts, it cannot be rightly regulated till all 
the elements of our nature are understood, and accord- 
ingly directed in harmony together. It is yet, working 
with other parts, to make provision for the race, of 
which, from partial perception, men have but just 
begun to dream. Located directly above Alimentive- 
ness, with average surface about one inch and a half 
square. 

SUPPRESSIVENESS. 

By others called "Secretiveness. 59 Desire to suppress, 
or the reverse, as is required for the best attainment of 
our ends. This is a strong aid to self-control, in leading 
the intellect to perceive the necessity of suppressing the 
feelings and their manifestation, and avoiding causes 
of excitement. It works much in aid of Representative- 
ness, on the stage, in art, in literature, in influencing 
human nature ; assisting much in a large portion of the 
business of the world. It stimulates and guides, and 
thus greatly aids the intellect in policy, in judgment 
of what to suppress and what to uphold; making 
thought here much more attentive and farther reaching. 
Located directly above Thoroughness ; average surface 
about one inch, and a fourth high and two wide. 

Cautiousness. 

Desire to be guarded against all opposition to our 
interests ; a watchman for all the other elements. Lo- 
cated above Suppressiveness, little farther back, at the 



16 PHRENOLOGY, 

top of the sidehead; average surface about one inch and 
a half in height, two in length. 

Approbativeness. 

Love of popularity and that which is popular for our- 
selves' and others. This is a powerful propensity, one 
of the chief regulators of human life, and the source of 
much good and a vast amount of evil. Scores of ages 
hence all its power we claim will be for the right ; that 
then, under it, men will not be ashamed, as now, but take 
pride, in imitating God, in living intelligently, in har- 
mony with their fellows, in the most joyous life. This 
is the most ruling motive with tens of millions of man- 
kind ; as Provision ality, Veneration, Dignity, Equitive- 
ness, Benevolence, each is with other millions, and Sex- 
uality 9 Friendship, Parentiveness, Alimentiveness, with 
one-half the human race. Located between Dignity 
and Cautiousness; average surface about one inch and 
a half square. 

Dignity. 

By others called "Self-esteem." Love of that which 
is dignified, of a life becoming to man, with all. Under 
the prevailing imperfect circumstances and philosophy, 
as of all the other sentiments, when strong, it acts with 
full strength only when and where it is led to such by 
other strong sentiments ; and, under their universally 
imperfect philosophy, it has everywhere hitherto been 
the source of a vast amount of evil. Well developed, 
it inclines men to be unmindful of trifling affairs; and, 
working with intellect, sometimes looks at the whole of 
life here, in itself, as of small account, and considers the 
difference between much and little of power, wealth, 
health, knowledge, virtue, love — whatever it may be — 
of anything desirable on earth, outside of its future 
results, as a trifle not worthy of great consideration ; 
and hence often inclines men, while getting what en- 
joyment they can, to quietly take life's varying allot- 
ments as fickle destiny turns them, without worrying 
over deficiencies, losses, or any good here unattained. 
It leads to appreciation of the fact, that the difference 



PHRENOLOGY. 17 

between the idiots and Humbolts of mankind is as 
nothing, in our almost total ignorance of the measure- 
less universe around, and the coramenceless and endless 
eternity back and before us. It leads men to humble 
consideration of their nothingness in the light of such 
facts as that the earth, with all upon it, compared to the 
rest of what God superintends, is less than a mote in the 
sunbeam to the world over which it floats; and that, in 
illustration of our littleness and spiritual growth in the 
future life, were we, which of course is entirely im- 
probable, to expand physically as well as in spiritual 
power, and advance over the universe by the clumsy 
process of foot-step, the time, not far off, might be, when, 
in bulk of person, we would fill more space than our 
telescope has spanned — a field over which light, with its 
speed of near two hundred thousand miles per second, 
is hundreds of thousands of years in passing — each step 
in our onward march reaching over a still farther dis- 
tance, and early in this gigantic career a field greatly 
larger than our telescope has covered, perhaps to be 
allotted us for superintendence, with all its rolling gran- 
deur ; this field and our persons and powers to be for- 
ever expanding, while each of us forever to have an 
immeasurably less field for action, with immeasurably 
less magnitude and power than other creatures who 
began infinitely long ago ; yet creatures, though to be 
forever expanding in greatness of being, power, and 
work, to be forever incomprehensively below God, who 
was God when they began. We are accepting as fact 
here that God did not begin to create, since, if He did, 
and is infinite, during the preceding half of eternity, lie 
must have been idle and alone, which, in perfection, lie 
could not be. This, of course, is in the field of the un- 
certain and incomprehensible. Though such gigantic 
physical creatures as here noticed doubtless never have 
been and never will be, they serve in illustration of 
w r hat this sentiment, in its fartherest reach, well con- 
siders, and, in comparison, directs man humbly back 
upon the undignified nothingness of his little self. Lo- 
cated between the organs of Approbativeness; average 
surface about one inch in height, and two in width. 



18 PHRENOLOGY. 

Consistency. 

By others culled " Firmness." Love of the consistent 
in connection with leading principles, objects, strongest 
elements, previously settled policies, decisions, independ- 
ently of present influence and excitement; operating as 
a balance wheel. In highest location, in kingly position 
and authority, as a sleepless overseer over what is below, 
in the far future, under full and right philosophy, it will 
ask for a natural, harmonious consistency from all the ele- 
ments of human nature ; full obedience in each to the laws 
over it ; and will be rightly inaugurated into governments 
for the defective masses. In times of danger and high 
excitement it is in its office — favoring consistency — to 
suspend decision and action until a thorough survey of 
all the facts of the case, under the different faculties and 
sentiments, is completed. Besides urging large organs 
to always attend to their business, which otherwise they 
would often neglect, this sentiment often leads men, in- 
directly, through philosophy, when the other sentiments 
are deficient, to be equitable, venerative, dignified, con- 
tinuous, executive, provide for the future, &c. Hitherto 
it has worked for the wrong greatly more than for the 
right. Located at the center of a line passing perpen- 
dicularly from one ear over to the other ; the larger 
part of the organ being back of this line; average sur- 
face about two inches square. 

Equitiveness. 

By others called " Conscientiousness." Love of 
equality in the interests of all; desiring for others as 
much as we desire for ourselves; the universal love of 
Jesus, like the impartial love of God, the fountain. With 
wrong philosophy this sentiment very often favors re- 
venge, dishonesty, and other evils ; and, in its uni- 
versal depravity, outside of its extensive neglect, having 
more to do than any other element in man, its re- 
quired business being in proportion to its extreme 
though dormant power, attending to but a small frac- 
tion of its work; outside of this neglect, in its wander- 
ings, its pathway of operations over the globe is every- 



PHKEKOLOGY. 19 

where black with blight and ruin. Without benevolence, 
or full and right philosophy, it often leads men who de- 
sire to be unassisted, exposed, as they are, and subjected 
to the wrongs of others, to favor that others be left the 
same, subjected to their wrongs. Considered in its bulk 
and in its two parts this is the largest organ of the human 
brain, the strongest force of the human soul, the most 
kingly power of the race on this globe ; and, from its 
long confinement and torpor in dungeon darkness, it is 
in our day awakening and struggling to be free, to have 
in fullness its natural food. For the distant future it 
teaches that the abilities of the stronger and weaker 
classes are common provision, equally for the good of 
both; and that each is bound to do all it can for the 
other, under the various laws, in imitation of God; and 
that, as we, under reason, desire to do no more work 
than enough for our physical and mental needs, enough 
each day for each day's general wants, receiving all the 
value of the labor, in condition, provision, circumstance, 
for the largest gratification of every element of our na- 
ture, as we desire to have all possible provision for en- 
joyment, to avoid the losses so extensive everywhere, 
resulting from mismanagement, to avoid the sexual 
absurdities, deprivations, vices, now so extremely pre- 
valent, and many other misregulations, violations, perplex- 
ities, losses — to have the highest training and condition 
of all our physical and mental elements ; every part be- 
ing cultivated, as is the pugilist's muscle, on the ground 
that no part can be in best condition for joyous and 
forcible action without every other part being so — and 
that the proper amount of legitimate action and enjoy- 
ment in each part strengthens that part and all the other 
elements^iotthat the muscular system of the mind laborer 
needs as much action as does that of the manual-laborer. 
Brain action, through excitement which it awakens in the 
heart, not only drawls blood to the brain, but also to the 
muscular system, a portion of which is in habit of being, 
though to small extent, daily in powerful action ;) 
as we desire the most favorable circumstances for 
enjoyment, for harmonious mingling with friends, 



20 PHKENOLOGY. 

parents, children, companions, without separation till 
day of dissolution, clear from the blights that have 
wrecked millions of husbands, lathers, sons, and daugh- 
ters; and clear from that slavery in which a majority of 
the race are, and the rest liable to be, and which forces 
upon the great mass an excess of labor, and holds them 
from improvement and enjoyment — as we desire in full- 
ness the pleasures of music, of the stage, of eloquence, 
literature, science, art, philosophy — the highest artistic 
beattty and grandeur in dwellings and surroundings, as 
we desire all this, all of value for enjoyment that is ob- 
tainable, for ourselves, this sentiment desires, aye, in 
supreme authority from the Almighty, peremtorily de- 
mands this for all; and in requiring this, requires ex- 
tensive combination of thought, effort, interest ; the final 
abandonment of this unequitable system, and the obvia- 
ting of the present necessity for hoarding wealth; there 
being no other way than through this combination to 
have universal equality in acquired provision for enjoy- 
ment, and to have this provision the highest possible, 
higher than political and moneyed kings and queens 
have ever obtained ; as is fully and plainly demon- 
strated, both in theory and experience, from the enginery 
of human nature, facts in general society, the successful 
though erring Shaker, and other like communities. The 
most God-like of earthly power is in this element; 
greatly torpid as well as perverted hitherto, yet to be fully 
aroused, and under intelligence to electrify and hold un- 
limited sway through uncounted ages to come. We 
want thought upon this philosophy, also the blundering 
experiments and failures of fanatics, as centuries go 
by, to fit us for successful practice when the race shall 
be ripe for it. We must be educated, through thought 
and experiment and failure, as in the world of physical 
invention, to the higher modes of regulating human 
affairs, before we can have them in practice, physically, 
poli'ically, socially, morally, religiously. It is with the 
inevitable that our race shall have the lower and lesser 
good first, the animal and barbarous ; slowly rising 
along the flow of ages to the greater and higher good. 



PHKENOLOGY. 21 

The best forms of government and religion and life 
of the musses have had no adaptations for mankind 
hitherto. The most helpful systems of government 
and religion for the present, are such as prevail, in 
Europe, Asia, Africa, America, Gradually our race 
is to outgrow the infantile barbarism of the present, 
slowly rise into titness to receive the highest help, 
instead of injury, as it would hitherto, from the 
highest forms of government and religion; and, sure as 
coming seed-time and harvest, in spite of the heedless, 
the morally blind, and the policy carpers, this humanity 
reform, under this supreme law of Equitiveness, is finally 
to come into rightful organization ; from small begin- 
ning slowly expanding to be the most ruling power this 
globe with our race can know ; with the sweep of the 
avalanche, breaking over all obstacles in its way, gather- 
ing and elevating the human race into one grand army 
of heroes and victors, the allotted time, to hold the earth 
in undisputed sway, as it grandly courses its rounds, 
with kindred worlds, in the etherial blue, The scores of 
crazy social experiments which, a few years ago, ap- 
peared and disappeared as bubbles, prove only what was 
known before, that management must be accorded to 
the nature of the material to be managed and the results 
to be attained. Xo experiments in this line have been 
tried on the natural system, or can he, till its subjects 
are educated and trained for it. Equitiveness is located 
on each side of the back part of Consistent; average 
surface about two inches long and one and a fourth in 
width ; the length being between Hope and Approbative- 
ness ; in its largest development having, in its two parts, 
about eight square inches of surface. 

Hope. 

Faith with regard to success and the essentials for it, 
here and hereafter. Located on each side of the fore 
part of Consistency; average surface about one inch 
square. 

Spirituality. 

Sense of, and desire to depend on, and be controlled 
by, the spiritual laws and powers that are over us, lead- 



22 PHRENOLOGY. 

ing to excitement in our ruling sentiments, thereby ex- 
tending their influence. This element is the source of a 
mysterious religious enjoyment, powerfully experienced 
by millions of mankind, and in agency here is believed 
to be a medium of communion between God and man. 
Its legitimate office is thought to be chiefly to seek 
gratification and influence for good in prayer, and 
through prayer and other ways to aid in rightful life, 
in directing our whole being, in imitation of God, most 
effectively to, or in harmony with, the good of humanity. 
As we accept that we are in " God's image," and as we 
enjoy spiritual communion with our children, and like 
to be properly solicited by them for favors, and that 
they should feel thankfulness to us, we must accept that 
God also loves this communion, thankfulness, prayer, 
from His children ; and as we accept that He is incapable 
of partiality, and the only cause in being, all other 
causes, so called, being secondary, and hence only in- 
struments, it may be inferred that He will, where He has 
not, sooner or later, some time in duration's endless 
flow, in proper season, lead all His children, for both 
His and their gratification, upward, from low, destitute 
condition, to an acceptance of the necessary means for 
highest good, universal love, respect, kindness, activity, 
prayer, &c. We will add, that we cannot but prefer the 
rich feasting of following the teachings of this senti- 
ment, with the other powerful directors around it, rather 
than leaving in starvation this towering part of us, under 
the dark guesses of the materialist, Located each side 
of Veneration ; average surface about one inch and a 
fourth square. 

Veneration. 

Respect for whatever is worthy of it, the authoritative 
desires within, and beings and laws around. Guided by 
other higher elements, in humble and loving adoration, 
it directs itself most powerfully to the Great Parent. 
We cannot but accept of the existence of such a parent, 
from the fact that we have the organs of Spirituality, 
Veneration, Benevolence, Equitiveness, Provisionally, 
IVrfectivcncss, Sublimity, and Hope, which, in combina- 



PHKENOLOGY. 23 

tion, can not, when well developed i.nd active, satisfy 
their cravings on affairs of this life, and which can not 
in satisfaction stop short of a perfect God, and an endless 
future of ceaseless, direct or indirect progression for 
all His children; all of them under a system of cause 
and effect, of good and bad, or, as you might term it, of 
reward and penalty, forever. All other desires of man, 
and all desires of all other creatures, far as our knowl- 
edge goes, have provision, in form of reality, for full 
gratification ; hence, besides the powerful reason in the 
absurdity, of which human research has never found an 
instance, of having passions made for starvation on an 
insufficient provision for their gratification, or for grati- 
fication on ungrounded visions and lies, we have also the 
same foundation for considering it a law of nature, that 
where there is desire there is reality related to it, suffi- 
cient for its gratification, that we have for the law 
of gravitation and all the other known natural laws; 
the foundations for acceptance of them all being the 
fact that the extensive observations of the human race 
have found no exceptions to them; and we cannot put 
down this, the noblest, most kingly part of man, with 
its powerful desires, compassing eternity, the universe, 
and an all-perfect spiritual power, clinging in highest 
faith and gratification to these as their own — w T e cannot 
put down this, the grandest part of mind, as having for 
its main object, and which takes most powerfully and 
much most satisfyingly its attention, merely deceiving, 
groundless visions — we cannot give up this, the most 
powerful and comprehensive part of our nature, as an 
exception to all else w r e know of desire, and that this 
extreme yearning has for its food, without which and 
with which it must hunger and thirst in vain, chiefly a 
vast bubble of nothing; w r e turn from such an absurdity 
in disgust, and cling; unfalteringly to the undeceiving; 
reality of these grandeurs over and beyond us. Here is 
the richest food w T e have found on the bounteous table ; 
and let us live, while this appetite lives, feasting upon 
it, partaking of the sweet when the sweet is joy and life, 
instead of the bitter when the bitter is pain and death; 



24 PHRENOLOGY. 

and if it is so, that this, the only food which can satisfy 
this towering part of us, taking up so much brain, so 
much energy, so much joy, be groundless visions and 
lies, w r e cannot find a shadow of ground to believe it ; 
and let us not at all harbor here any groundless, tortur- 
ing doubt, but accept that there is a fountain like and 
for the streams, an all-sufficient source from which our 
existence has come; related to, and corresponding with, 
this leading part of our nature — and hesitate not to con- 
tinue feasting our eager cravings upon this most luxuri- 
ous, health and joy giving food; allowing not groundless 
doubt to turn it into poison and gall of bitterness. Under 
imperfect philosophy, Veneration has, everywhere, 
through the past, extensively favored the wrong. Lo- 
cated between Consistency and Benevolence; on the 
average having surface about one inch and a half square. 

Benevolence. 

Love of the welfare of others. This is one of the 
largest divisions of the human brain, and one of the full- 
est fountains of enjoyment. It has hitherto had but 
little of the gratification of which it is capable. It has 
been pushed into the background, and held in chains 
and covered in darkness. It is yet, in the distant future, 
to be gotten out from tins prison-house, its giant power 
giving unceasing and impartial sway, with the blissful 
privilege, working with the other sentiments, of leading 
in the regulation of this earthly scene, till every heart is 
made to glow and every cheek bloom, from constant 
fullness of joy, over the present and future, for which 
the great God of benevolence has fitted up these human 
engines and sifted them around the world. As the arm is 
weakened from long confinement in the sling, so, from 
hindrance in like ways, Benevolence, with the social, 
moral, religious, and intellectual elements, with the 
great mass, have become weakened and inactive, be- 
sides other hindrances and want of other requisites for 
action, and received but a small fraction of the enjoy- 
ment which such training as the pugilist's muscle re- 
ceives would have fitted them for, and a natural system 



PHRENOLOGY, 25 

of human regulations have granted to them. This ele- 
ment of Benevolence is a foremost principle in and over 
the Realm of Being. Doubtless for its gratification, 

with the great Supreme, all powers and existences in 
immensity are directly or indirectly aimed ; over a field 
limitless as the benevolence — limitless desire with a limit- 
less universe to feed it. Aided by omniscience and 
omnipotence, it is doubtless in unceasing operation, de- 
lightfully bestowing its bounties over this measureless 
Held; makms: of everything;, of even the most intense 
agony, a rich germ for an endless succession of harvests 
of enjoyment. We are using as truth the assumption 
that God is commenceless and infinite. This mechanism 
of human nature, with all its experience, is, doubtless, in 
the great plan, for nought but the gratification, directly 
or indirectly, of this element; and, too, in this way, a 
wonderfully beautiful arrangement it is, in its God- 
imaged construction ; and so, now, to us, directly, in its 
germ-like commencing, in its richest bloom and purity 
and thrillings of enjoyment, with its activities and loves 
in connection with the glowing existences around it ; in 
its full adaptation and provision — for the manhood of 
the race — for complete gratification, in reality and ex- 
pectation. Under a complete and correct philosophy 
this sentiment would make doing good, in imitation of 
God, the aim of all our objects; thereby gratifying 
every element of our nature in the fullest and highest 
degree. It is under this benevolence, with the other 
ruling perfections, that we accept suffering as the great 
teacher of the universe, an agent to serve, a blessing to 
go with and help all or' God's vast family forever. All 
enjoyment being produced by action, and capability for 
enjoyment being also capability for pain, and all finite 
creatures being: finite in knowledge, and hence to be for- 
ever ignorant and subject to err, and erroneous action 
producing displeasure, and we being like God in desire 
for action, and to be no less than in His "image ' : with 
this desire forever, ever having no less curiosity than 
now, ever desiring activity, success, progress, ever enter- 
ing new fields, with new work, subject to the displeasure 



26 PHRENOLOGY. 

of defeat and disappointment, we unavoidably have the 
conclusion that there is an endless hell — if you would 
term it so strongly and roughly — for every creature but 
God; one not to be saved from, but, as a needed, helping 
consequence of error — while, as far as possible, avoiding 
this error — to be thankfully welcomed as one of the rich- 
est boons in the realm of being. From imperfect philos- 
ophy and want of true help from the other sentiments, 
Benevolence has hitherto very extensively favored the 
wrong, working for certain parties and classes at expense 
of others. Located between Veneration and Spiritual 
Similarity ; average surface about one inch and a half 
square. 

Sublimity. 

Love of the sublime, vast, unlimited, in space, distance, 
bulk, time, knowledge, power, kindness, love, life, enjoy- 
ment, its means, &c. Adapted to Immensity and Eter- 
nity, collectively, and in the extensive divisions of them 
and their contents. It expands thought to infinity for 
the organs around it, in their granting to us, to all, an 
infinite God, infinite universe, infinite existence, infinite 
good; and so all this being the natural desire of man, it 
must also be the desire antl will of God, in whose image 
we are. Located between Cautiousness and Perfective- 
ness; average surface about one inch and a half square. 

Perfectiveness. 

By others called "Ideality. 55 Love of perfection in 
relation to all our mental elements, in their action, 
work, and influence, in connection with all human life; 
also, in relation to God and the universe, leading — work- 
ing with the other sentiments — to belief in perfection in 
these; also belief in a future for all, with all for them 
that a perfect God can have, give, and do. This senti- 
ment has been called the lover of beauty; the other 
organs also perceive and love beauty, in form, color, 
music, logic, rhetoric, plans, organizations, visions, 
morals, religion, social life, &c. ; each of its own kind or 
in its own way; while Perfectiveness, with full and right 



PHRENOLOGY. 27 

philosophy, loves perfection in all this beauty. As the 
heart has been called the organ of the feelings, yet is 
merely the propeller of the blood, making its fulness and 
rapidity of flow, and thereby the power of the feelings, 
and the other elements, greatly dependant upon, and 
much in proportion to, the power of the heart, so, in 
like way, Perfectiveness, though not the imaginative 
power, has been called such; yet, loving perfection, 
merely impels the intellect beyond what are considered 
imperfect realities, into regions of imagination, there to 
conceive visions of what are considered perfection, upon 
which to feast its cravings ; yet there is, and can be no 
richer food for this sentiment than the wonderful reali- 
ties all over God's universe. It is with Perfectiveness 
here as with all the other sentiments, affections, passions ; 
they all stimulate and direct the intellect more or less to 
the ideal as well as the real. The vegetarian founds one 
of his arguments on this sentiment, considering the cor- 
rupt material, constantly forming, from decay, in all 
living flesh, as not only a medicinal stimulant, a stupefy- 
ing and inflaming, depravity-producing agent, but as re- 
pulsive to this sentiment of purity, reasoning correctly 
here, but overlooking the fact that imperfections neces- 

overworked, partially broken-down men must have more 
or less of medicinal stimulus. Located between Sublim- 
ity and Spiritual Organization; on the average having 
surface about one inch and a fourth square. 

Melody. 

By others called "Tune." Judgment of melody in 
music and language. This faculty, as do all the others, 
loves as well as judges, and is capable of much gratifica- 
tion; also leading to much with other elements, through 
excitement which it awakens in them. Located directly 
above Number; with surface on the average about one 
inch and a fourth square. 

Representativeness. 

By others called "Imitation." Desire and ability to 
represent, through all the faculties and all the feelings; 



28 PHRENOLOGY. 

assisting to a full understanding with all the intellect 
and with all that is accessible of the physical and spiritual 
universe ; bringing all the faculties and feelings related 
to the subject in view to bear upon it, that it may be 
comprehended as far as possible in all respects; and then, 
through this knowledge, leading in creating and recrea- 
ting, from original perception, memory, imagination, in 
expression of thought and feeling, manners, life, rhetoric, 
logic, forms, organizations, plans, visions, music, lan- 
guage, business, science, art, over all the field here of 
existence and life in all their representations. Whether 
it is capable of success in any field depends on its 
strength and the strength of the other faculties related 
to the work. Located each side of Benevolence ; average 
surface about one inch and a fourth square. 

Spiritual Organization. 

By others unrecognized. Ability to comprehend spir- 
itual organizations, as such, and to perceive how discon- 
nected parts should be brought together to constitute a 
well organized whole, in connection with spiritual exist- 
ence — complicated plans for regulating and controlling 
human nature, individually and collectively, books, 
speeches, logic, rhetoric, &c. Located between Spiritual 
Incongruity and Perfectiveness ; average surface about 
one inch and a fourth square. 

Physical Organization. 

By others called " Constructiveiiess. 59 Ability to com- 
prehend physical organizations as such, and to perceive 
how to connect disconnected parts into a well-organized 
whole, in any of the physical business of the world. It 
does this in complicated mechanical inventions, while 
Eteasonality with Similarity, Incongruity, Force, &c., 
perceive the result of the combination; Representative- 
ness, Force, Seasonality, &c, more or less guiding in 
doing the work; Representativeness here, with its as- 
sistants, creating the perceptions, visions, plans of the 
other faculties into organized realities. Through differ- 
ent faculties are perceived ideas, Laws, principles, farts, 
conditions, qualities, arguments, forces, modes of opera- 



PHRENOLOGY. 29 

tion, productions, relations, expressions, &c, and these 
organizing powers, with the aid of Kepresentativeness, 
&c., as servants to do the work, combine them to pro- 
duce a well organized whole. Physical Organization is 
located between Melody and Provisionally; average 
surface about one inch and a fourth square. 

Spiritual Incongruity. 

Upper part of the organ by others called "Mirthful- 
ness." Ability to percewe incongruities, inconsistencies, 
in customs, laws, conditions, principles, opinions, argu- 
ments, conclusions, everything of spiritual nature under 
men's attention. This faculty greatly aids Seasonality, 
which uses its perceptions of the incongruous as argu- 
ments ; discovering truth and error in and from them ; 
often using them, with and without the perceptions of 
Spiritual Similarity, in putting error into a ridiculous 
light, where it is easily perceived to be an absurdity. It 
is much used merely for amusement, to produce laugh- 
ter ; of which it is, with its physical department, mys- 
teriously the fountain. Located outside of Spiritual 
Reasonality ; average surface about three-fourths of an 
inch square. 

Physical Incongruity. 

Lower part of the organ by others called "Mirthful- 
ness." Ability to perceive incongruities, inconsistencies, 
in physical nature — in fashions, customs, all the physical 
work of the world, and in the physical sciences and phi- 
losophies. Located outside of Physical Seasonality; 
average surface about three-fourths of an inch square/ 

These faculties of Incongruity are in extensive de- 
mand as discoverers of premises in logic, and render 
very much aid in nearly all the business in which men 
engage; enabling Eeasonality, with and without Simi- 
larity, to perceive and understand error from its incon- 
sistency with previously ascertained truths, and through 
what these inconsistencies mean; and are indispensable 
to the complete general reasoner. With these faculties 
much deficient, men blunder in logic in certain depart- 
ments from considering in their premises that there is 



30 PHRENOLOGY. 

inconsistency where there is not, and that there is not 
such where there is; and with these faculties strong, and 
Similarity, Force, the sentiments, including Cautious- 
ness, Indivisibility, and Eventuality, weak, often blunder 
from dullness and carelessness in judgment of their 
groundwork facts; very often mistaking inconsistency 
with error for inconsistency with truth, and inconsistency 
with truth for inconsistency with error; and so, in great 
strength, as with strong Seasonality unassisted, often 
blunder and lead to such, in general reasoning and judg- 
ment. 

Spiritual Seasonality. 

By others called " Suavitiveness." Ability, in connec- 
tion with spiritual nature, to reason, to discover truths 
and errors in and from other errors and truths; to draw 
conclusions from conclusions which this faculty has pre- 
viously perceived, and from the knowledge of all the 
other spiritual faculties. Through reasoning this fac- 
ulty enables men to establish their philosophies in con- 
nection with the spiritual — to judge of human nature in 
all its spiritual elements, and how to manage it, indi- 
vidually and collectively, &c. Located each side of 
Spiritual Similarity; average surface about one inch 
square. 

Physical Seasonality. 

By others called " Causality. 55 Ability to reason in 
connection with physical nature, from premises derived 
from itself and the other physical faculties. Through 
its reasoning it discovers the essentials for success in the 
larger part of the business of the world; and does all. the 
logical judging in the physical sciences and philosophies, 
of all that is physical in them. Located each side of 
Physical Similarity; average surface about one inch 
square. 

These faculties of argument are the fountains of all 
logic, or judgment, in drawing conclusions. 'Their only 
work is to reason. In this they discover, far as logically 
perceivable, from their previously acquired knowledge 
and the knowledge of the other faculties, what the truth 



PHRENOLOGY. 31 

is and why it is, in connection with operations, condi- 
tions, qualities, forces, productions, organizations, plans, 
everything of perceivable existence; yet, with insuffi- 
ciency of assistance in their work, are often very blun- 
dering. To the sound general reasoner much aid to 
Reasonality from the other faculties is indispensable. 
Man}' with strong reasoning power do most of their rea- 
soning from borrowed knowledge, in connection with 
Force, Equitiveness, &c. ; haying little of the organs that 
are — from perception or stimulus to perception — origi- 
nal, groundwork fact-gatherers, are obliged to depend 
much on facts from other men's perceptions; and so are 
quite subject to err from mistakes in their premises. 
Persons with great power of Eeasonalitv and the facul- 
ties of Number and Force greatly deficient, are much 
lacking in ability to comprehend the result of applying, 
withdrawing, combining, disuniting forces and numbers; 
and, in instances, even to comprehend some of the most 
simple axioms in connection with mathematics and the 
philosophy of forces ; though in instances reason exten- 
sively and accurately here, drawing conclusions from 
facts which they do not comprehend, comprehending 
neither the premises nor the conclusions; yet, without great 
care, such are liable to err from mistakes in their prem- 
ises. Some persons are very original beyond or before 
their conclusions only in connection with Number, in 
mathematics, independent here of other men-'s percep- 
tions, axioms and rules. Others are much independent of 
other men in groundwork for logic only in connection with 
the teachings of Equitiveness, Veneration, Benevolence, 
&c. Others, before their conclusions, original only with 
the perceptions of Force, in changes, productions, the 
forces which produce them and the relations here. Yet 
many, greatly lacking in originality in judgment of foun- 
dation principles and facts in general, though more or 
less subject to err, are extensive in their reasoning in 
connection with most departments of knowledge. Men, 
deficient in the higher sentiments, being unoriginal here, 
sometimes consider all men so, and that our knowledge 
of equity, &c, in morals and religion, could be obtained 



32 PHKENOLOGY^ 

only through revelation direct from God. Our knowl- 
edge of the brain shows here, what we see in other ways, 
that many strong minds are naturally lacking in original 
judgment of equity, force, perfection, inconsistency, simi- 
larity/ melody, &c. ; and hence in these departments 
must. often be unreliable in judgment The only work 
of Seasonality being in judging of the meaning of facts, 
in the application of them, as measuring tests, as with 
the rule or scales, having no other comprehension of 
them, this faculty in average development, with Incon- 
gruity, Similarity, Force, Indivisibility, Eventuality, &c, 
largely developed, though incapable of taking in so much 
at one view, can generally do much more and do it 
much better than large Seasonality with these ground- 
work fact-gatherers in moderate development. Great 
Seasonality, with all its assistants 5 weak, may have great 
power of drawing conclusions, of applying facts to the 
discovery of truth, yet will often blunder from going 
beyond facts, mistaking, in its premises, truth for error 
and error for truth, and settled fact for uncertain con- 
clusion, and uncertain conclusion for settled fact. Such 
men, though greatly lacking in general judgment, in 
instances have much success in large business where only 
a few, plain or settled principles and facts are to be dealt 
with. 

Spiritual Similarity. 

By others called " Human Nature." Ability to per- 
ceive similarities, likenesses, in spiritual existence; there- 
by enabling Spiritual Seasonality to argue from analogy, 
and discover truth in the unknown from its likeness to 
what is understood. Located at the center of the top of the 
forehead, joining Benevolence; average surface about 
one inch and a quarter wide, and one inch high. 

Physical Similarity. 

By others called " Comparison. 55 Ability to perceive 
similarities, likenesses, in physical existence ; thus furaish- 
iug facts for Physical Seasonality to draw conclusions from. 
Located between Eventuality and Spiritual Similarity ; 
average surface about one inch square. These faculties 



PHEEKOLOGY. 33 

of perceiving similarities through aid which they render 
Seasonality in logic, in classifying conditions and thus 
furnishing premises, are indirectly much the most fruit- 
ful source of philosophical and scientific discovery ; be- 
sides their perceptions which are of much value without 
logic, in their classifying conditions over all accessible 
physical and spiritual existence ; and since their percep- 
tions are very often indispensable in reasoning, men 
with these faculties much deficient are never sound gen- 
eral logicians, judges, in logic, rhetoric, business, science, 
philosophy, are deficient in common sense from often 
considering that there is a similarity where there is not, 
and that there is not such where there is, and that a like- 
ness is partial when it is complete, and complete when 
it is partial ; failing in analysis and classification. These 
faculties of course perceive differences as well as like- 
nesses, as Incongruity does congruities, and the miner, 
rocks as well as gold. They are very much used in rep- 
resentation of ideas, in illustrating that w T hich is to be 
explained, by a likeness between it and that which is well 
known. 

Eventuality. 

Power of observing changes within and around the 
mind, the workings of the faculties, of individuals, na- 
tions, what has been done, in course of being done, may 
be done, to be done, should and should not be done here 
and in the heavens around ; in its fartherest reach, lead- 
ing, through other faculties, to speculation over what 
God has done and may do in His day and field, under 
what we claim as a universal law, that there cannot be 
enjoyment without action as a producing cause. In 
business where many new and complicated plans are to 
be formed and carried out, Eventuality, when strong, 
leads Seasonality, with its assistants for premises, to be 
attentive in perceiving what is required to be done. 
Small Eventuality, in business requiring much diversity 
of operation, often allows of neglect in perceiving what 
it is essential to do ; thus weakening both judgment and 
memory here, as do deficient Equitiveness, Consistency, 
Suppressiveness, and a dozen other elements, each in 



34 PHRENOLOGY. 

its own department, or under its own head, by not giv- 
ing an essential stimulus to the intellect, and leading it 
in and to perception, judgment, memory. Considerable 
assistance from this element is indispensable to the sound, 
general* logician, philosopher, scientist, successful general 
business man. Located between Indivisibility and Phy- 
sical Similarity; average surface nearly one inch square. 

Locality. 

Ability to perceive the relations of localities; their di- 
rections from each other. It aids the mechanic, pilot, 
geographer, explorer, &c. Located each side of Eventu- 
ality ; average surface nearly one inch square. 

Time. 

Ability to mentally measure the lapse of time in mu- 
sic, &c. Related to eternity and its divisions, past, pres- 
ent, and future. Located partly above, and between 
Color and. Systemality ; average surface about three- 
fourths of an inch square. 

Number. 

Ability to understand laws and results in connection 
with numbers. As of all the other faculties, there may 
be great power here with little rapidity, or great rapidity 
with little power ; also little power and much accuracy 
in common, light work. The best accountant, best 
dancer, best musician, best poet, best artist, the man of 
readiest and most accurate judgment and taste, is often 
not the man of the largest organs and greatest power, 
but of the best balance, quality, condition, training, depth 
and number of brain folds, and intensest temperament. 
The little honey bee, with his little brain organism, does 
his work as accurately as the ship-builder or the Maker 
of worlds. Rapidity, accuracy, depth in narrow penetra- 
tion, and activity and intensity with the feelings, often 
are mistaken for extensiveness in breadth and bulk of 
power. The location of Number is o'ltward from Sys- 
temality; average surface about one-half inch square. 



PHRENOLOGY. 35 

Systemality. 

Power of regulating sys- 
tematically iu accordance with all the principles and 
rules of intellect, in connection with all parts of human 
nature and all around it to which it is related. Imper- 
fectly assisted, as it universally is, outside of its fre- 
quently abnormal condition, it often becomes exacting 
beyond reason, regarding certain principles and rules of 
right, propriety, affairs of taste, business, &c, and un- 
mindful of other rules and principles, of Equitiveness, 
Perfectiveness, Executiveness, Provisionally, Locality, 
and so on, when these are not strong and not otherwise 
represented; and hence, when strongly developed, as 
of all the other leading higher and lower elements, 
this part must often greatly neglect and err without the 
required philosophy. We perceive that the Great Regu- 
lator, in like M ess of His own nature, as we accept, has 
put into the human constitution a multiplicity of differ- 
ent sentiments, each in its own particular way for full 
enjoyment in the one correct course of life, and as an 
indispensable aid in establishing a complete philosoplry 
of this course; each here doing what none of the others 
could do ; also aiding in putting this philosophy into 
practice. What Systemafhy, fully enlightened, would 
do, would also be desired by a dozen other elements, 
under full enlightenment and with full and right direc- 
tion in rightful circumstances. Rightly instructed, di- 
rected and circumstanced, each is conscientious, in its 
own higher or lower way, for the same ends ; loving all 
of the right; not, with any of them, because it is right, 
but because the right is its natural food. With full en- 
lightenment and right direction, Dignity would require 
the man to live intelligently, and hence to obev all the 
laws of his nature ; Approbativeness, under full intelli- 
gence, in rightful society, would find that respectability 
would be impossible without the same obedience. Cau- 
tiousness would not be willing to risk anything differ- 
ent ; Consistency, the first overseer, in a consistent life 
in all the elements, would demand full obedience to the 
laws over them ; Equitiveness require the same, for uni- 



36 PHRENOLOGY. 

versa! good; Veneration, full respect to all rightful law ; 
Benevolence, for its ends, need as much; Perfective- 
ness would have freedom from all error or deficiency ; 
Organization, the same; Representativeness, fully en- 
lightened, want it as its food ; Provision ality claim it 
as provision for enjoyment; Executiveness, as servant, 
would w r ant it all in execution ; Thoroughness to have it 
for its ends ; and Systemality desire it all as an intellectual 
policy over the whole ; and not only do all these ele- 
ments, rightly circumstanced, require all the right, be- 
sides desiring it, but man's whole social and animal na- 
ture also, for its fullest gratification, requires, though it 
does not fully desire, the same ; and — science unfolds it 
— the glorious day is dawning, though its sun will be 
many ages rising, when, with right organization, the hu- 
man soul shall have completion of liberty, and all its 
elements, in normal condition and under self-control, 
seek and get fullness of enjoyment in rightful life. Sys- 
temality is located between Color and Number ; average 
surface about one half inch square. 

Color. 

Judgment of colors. Located between Force and 
Systemality; average surface about one half inch 
square. 

Force. 

By others called " Weight." Comprehension of the 
natural forces. Led to its work, as is generally required, 
by the higher intellect, it comprehends gravity, electrical, 
chemical, mechanical forces, forces of natural develop- 
ment and dissolution, of heat, light, the brain, vital, 
social, mental, moral, religious forces, the relations be- 
tween all causes and effects with all the forces within 
and around us that are accessible to human investiga- 
tion; no other power, though it may lead and perceive, 
having comprehension here ; as with all the other facul- 
ties, each comprehending in its own department or way, 
and in no other; though, as in higher mathematics, 
Number requires aid from Reasonality, &c, so the fac- 
ulty of Force in most affairs requires very much of this 



PHKEXOLOGY. $7 

aid. Led on by the higher powers, it reaches and com- 
prehends thousands of times more than it could without 
this assistance. Individuals with no power of Season- 
ality, in instances, have thorough comprehension of the 
relations of numbers in simple mathematics, where Sea- 
sonality can be dispensed with; and it is the same with 
the faculty of Force. It comprehends the result of com- 
bining, disuniting, applying, withdrawing, forces ; seeing 
forces, causes, in effects, and effects in causes ; assisted 
bv the higher faculties, which discover the most of the 
causes, effects, and relations, without comprehending 
them. Men sometimes, through a moderately developed 
organ of mathematics, aided much by the higher facul- 
ties, obtain extensive knowledge of the science of num- 
bers ; so men, through a moderately developed organ of 
Force, much aided by the higher perceptions, in instances 
obtain extensive knowledge of cause and effect and the 
relations between them, in connection with an extensive 
range of the forces that are mmm ceaselessly operating 
upon, constructing, or dissolving or changing everything 
of the universe. As in mathematics, with the faculty of 
Number deficient, men often learn truths which they do 
not comprehend ; so w T ith deficiency in the faculty of 
Force, men, from their logic upon other men's percep- 
tions, discover much which they do not understand ; 
often concluding that some production is as the forces 
which produce it, without comprehending the fact. This 
organ in large development, sufficiently aided by the 
higher faculties, comprehends that all operations in im- 
mensity must be as the forces which produce them ; that 
this law of force must, beyond power of omniscience and 
omnipotence to make otherwise, be a universal system of 
despotic rule ; that under it must stand the universe and 
its God; that there they must have ever stood and there 
stand forever ; and, granting that there is a God at the 
head, instead of blind forces, and the origin of allpow r er, 
this faculty, fully aided, comprehends that all forces or 
causes but the great Fountain are secondary and not 
causes any further than as acting effects, instruments, 
agents; and that hence there is but one cause in being; 



38 PHRENOLOGY. 

and that all the changes in Eternity's commenceless past 
and endless future, under this inevitable and undeviating 
law, have come and are to come from this great Foun- 
tain; and that the infinite and unceasing flow of force 
and production from this wondrous source, streaming 
over immensity and through commenceless ages, all the 
work of this great Mind and Heart, must, beyond 
possibility of being otherwise, be precisely as the perfect 
wisdom, love, kindness, equity, &c, of His faultless con- 
stitution. With its higher aids, this faculty compre- 
hends that every movement of every leaf, of every mote 
and particle in and over oceans and globes, every thought 
and feeling of every creature, where there is no Supreme 
interference, is the outgrowth of a countless number of 
secondary causes, extending infinite!}' back; any one of 
which causes, had it been out of being, the little change 
or production, without Supreme interference, could not 
possibly have been. Aided, it comprehends that ,all 
changes and productions existed infinitely long ago, 
either in the secondary causes of nature or their great 
Fountain. In chains of cause and effect, with its assist- 
ants, it perceives the rank of the accessible causes ; as an 
instance, comprehends that no creature can possibly act 
otherwise than for self-gratification — that no voluntary 
action is possible in other way than as food for self-im- 
pulse — that even self-forgetting Beneyolence works 
wholly for others because the good of others is its only 
food; the aim here in assisting them being a means to 
this foundation object; as of the aim in the rein oval Of 
a thorn from the tinker, or an a chin 2; tooth from th 



e 



head — as with passions generally, where-the ends .which 
are means to their gratification take all the thought. 
With its higher assistance it comprehends what human 
history inevitably must be, from the first fully developed 
pairs of the race to its maturity; in its general principles, 
conditions, and doings — comprehends that the Best 
Being would do entirely as does the worst, had lie en- 
tirely a like nature and were entirely in like circum- 
stances to those of the worst comprehends that intellect 
is but a force impelling to, and with power, of, percep- 



PHRENOLOGY. 39 

tion ; capable of nothing but to want and get and give 
light, to gratify itself alone ; as of all the other parts of 
the brain, or the soul back of it — comprehends the 
groundwork for the conclusion that, with God, all pun- 
ishment, all misery, is given His children wholly from 
His love and kindness ; and that evil is such merely in 
being of the lower and lesser good ; and hence, in the 
broadest sense, is never evil; and that the Great Parent 
ever has us all lovingly in His arms, protected from all 
harm ; to be led, directly or indirectly, onward and up- 
ward, through ignorance and error and suffering and 
intelligence and love to Him and His children, and obe- 
dience to law, and enjoyment forever; ever passing, 
directly or indirectly, with greater or lesser progress, 
according to the wisdom of the great plan, from the 
lower and lesser to the greater and higher good, from a 
degraded to a God-like life — comprehends, in the way of 
force and production, that the sexual starvation, the 
starvation in a score of ways through all the human 
soul, ever darkening the globe with the wretchedness of 
groveling millions, the most extensive of absurdities, the 
sum of all human evil, the one wrong of human life, is 
to be terminated, and the human soul, under intelli- 
gence, to receive in fullness its natural food — that this 
is the great work for the future, the true religion of 
matured humanity; bringing selfishness and its oppo- 
sites, iill under intelligence, into perfection and harmony 
together ; all there is of this life of wisdom, consisting 
in enlarging and feeding our capacities for enjoyment, in 
giving to Equitiveness, to all the human soul, in fullness 
its natural food. This faculty of comprehending the 
relations between farces and productions is a main and 
indispensable groundwork judge in the wide field of 
common sense. .A T. Stewart perhaps had as much of 
this power and as large an amount of business common 
sense as any man on the globe. The vast mind of Lord 
Bacon was deficient in this element, and he had but 
little of common sense. The extreme sagacity of Dean 
Swift depended greatly on this faculty, which he had in 
extreme, while he was small in the reasoning part of the 



40 PHRENOLOGY. 

brain. Located between Distance and Color; average 
surface about one-half inch square. 

Distance. 

By others called " Size." Ability to measure distance 
by the eye, and comprehend distance, in Astronomy, 
&c. With experience, in certain fields, it judges of 
weight and value by eye measurement. We change the 
name here, since perceiving size is a combination of its 
1 perceptions. Located between Form and Force; aver- 
age surface about one-half inch square. 

Form. 

Ability to perceive and judge of physical forms. In 
combination with Locality, Distance, Organization, In- 
divisibility, Representativeness, and so on, it notices and 
remembers the appearance of countries, cities, machinery, 
countenances, &c, though memory here, as in all other 
departments, depends on completeness of attention, con- 
dition, depth and number of brain folds, and size of the 
organs ; large organs, other things being the same, per- 
ceiving and remembering, not better, but more than 
organs that are smaller. Located between and under 
Indivisibility and Distance, slightly above, and between 
the eyes ; average surface about one half inch square. 

Indivisibility. 

By others called " Individuality." Power of perceiv- 
ing disconnectedly the indivisible parts, far as accessible, 
of all individualities of physical and spiritual existence. 
This power much aids all the other faculties ; their capa- 
bility being greatly more when it is largely developed 
than when its developement is much deficient. With- 
out help from this organ the other faculties notice 
wholes and certain parts and overlook other parts, and 
often only a few organs will be awakened to attention 
when many others should be so awakened. In eager- 
ness for all the facts connected with the case in hand, 
this organ awakens all the other faculties and all the 
sentiments related to the subject. Located at the cen- 
ter of the lower part of the forehead ; average surface 
early one inch square. 



phrenology. 41 

Language 

Ability to understand, learn and devise language. 
This faculty, as with others, to perform its office, in ex- 
pression of thought, must have much assistance ; and 
receives this aid from Representativeness, Reasonality, 
Similarity, Incongruity. Organization, Perfectiveness, 
Systemality, Melody, Eventuality, Indivisibility. With 
its assistants, it reads the language of nature, judges of 
men, of facts in business, science, philosophy. Located 
partly above and back of the eye ; when large, forcing 
it well down and outward. 

Natural and Practical Character. 

In absence of the true philosophy of life and pro- 
vision for its adoption in practice, the theory and prac- 
tice of men, as a general thing, have ever been more or 
less deficient and erring, from the common standard, 
morally, in the departments and ways plainly related to 
the brain organs with them in deficient development. 
With greatly deficient Equitiveness, they often fail much 
in noticing even the most direct, plain teachings of this 
sentiment, and, as a consequence, are often much neg- 
lectful and erring in judgment, opinion, and practice 
here; and so, deficiency of Dignity, Approbativeness, 
Veneration, Benevolence, Consistency, Cautiousness, 
Provisionally, Executiveness, Thoroughness, Suppress- 
iveness, &c, each, from deficiency of feeling and conse- 
quent thought and original judgment, generally produces 
more or less deficiency in theory and practice in its own 
direct department ; and, as a general thing, with many 
exceptions from bad philosophy, in moral correctness, in 
general circumstances and conditions, men have been 
above or below the general theory and practice consid- 
erably in accordance as their superior sentiments were 
above or below r the average development ; yet, also as 
exceptions, sometimes, with a borrowed theory, when all 
the higher sentiments are much deficient, even one of 
the lower ones, and that not strong, will, in its low r er 
way, do what the higher sentiments would do, when 
predominant, and produce more than usual correctness 



42 PHRENOLOGY. 

of life ; showing most plainly that a full and correct 
theory for the race, .in fully favoring circumstances and 
conditions, may produce fully correct life with all man- 
kind. Yet, hitherto, since all men have been more or 
less unnatural in the machinery of thought and feeling, 
men's characters, physical, intellectual, social, passional, 
moral, religious, have not been chiefly in accordance 
with the amount of their brain and body development 
and their philosophy, but, very extensively, more in ac- 
cordance with their deranged physical conditions, and 
always more or less in accordance with these ; but which 
derangement — we have convincing evidence in the forces 
of the human organism, &c. — advancing knowledge and 
practice will finally remove from the world ; after some 
hundreds of generations more have come and gone. 
This opposition to rightful life, from disordered condi- 
tions in the machinery of thought and feeling, prevails 
more, as civilization under the existing order marches 
on. Under the present system, with its unnatural con- 
ditions, all are under liability of becoming more or less 
abnormal in thought and feeling on subjects to which by 
them is given very much and continuous attention ; re- 
ligious, moral, social, political, scientific ; business 
affairs, self, favored or unfavored companions, acquaint- 
ances, party, society, whatever the subject, In the ani- 
mal feelings are millions with more or less of this disor- 
der; the prisons have many of them, and more and 
worse subjects are unreached by human law. Millions 
have so much unnatural activity and action in one or 
more of the animal elements, including often the pro- 
pensity for muscular labor, that there is not sufficient 
energy left for activity in other parts, and so often are 
nearly destitute of desire and ability for intellectual, re- 
ligious, moral, social enjoyment. And the great loss 
from physical depravity, is not chiefly in health and 
length of life, but greatly more in enjoyment and condi- 
tions for it. In quite extremely depraved life, what. is 
called health may sometimes continue a hundred years, 
while half a score of years of rightful life may have 
much more enjoyment than all this century of depravity. 
Practical character never yet has been fully natural, 



PHRENOLOGY. 43 

for the reason that the machinery of thought and feeling 
never has been fully normal, and from want of the re- 
quired knowledge and circumstances. Under intelli- 
gence, when the machinery of life is understood, and the 
required arrangements are made for it, we claim the 
conditions of life will be made normal, and self-control 
and rightful life be natural and inevitable, under the 
laws of force, over desires and their food. But, as 
human progress times its step with the ages, scores of 
centuries more must go by ere the arrival of this maturity 
in human affairs. We must for long time yet have the 
greatly imperfect life; or, in another sense, the lower 
forms and ways of good. And in these infantile bar- 
barous ways, of good, of remedy, of help, we must still 
have the battle-field with its slaughters, the gallows with 
its struggling victims, the fallen woman and man no 
better, capitalists, sponging from the laboring millions, 
remedial poisons, animal, social, moral, religious ex- 
cesses and deficiencies, and so on through a long list. It 
is God's plan, in the first few hundred centuries of our 
race, to have it in much ignorance and guided very much 
more by error than by truth, and to have good done and 
the race advanced extensively by means that are to us 
despicable, under our enlightened sentiments. The scav- 
enger bird and worm perform an essential but disgusting 
work; so — we have the conclusion in the character of 
God, beside seeing much of it in the results — ignorance, 
corruption, crime, misery, in the great plan, are essen- 
tials to meet important ends; yet, God has put within us 
sentiments which are also a part of this plan, and to be 
our guide, which, enlightened, lead us to admire the 
higher life, outside of its greater joj^s, and despise that 
which is brutal; and, though good maybe done now, and 
for long time yet, as it has been through the past, in a 
despicable way, by war, by all manner of brutishness, 
with its consequent suffering, this is not the way for all 
the future; God has planned otherwise in the operating 
forces which he has put within and around the race. 
Since human nature, under intelligence, becomes and 
continues normal, and since all its forces, when normal 



44 PHRENOLOGY. 

and under intelligence and in the required circumstances 
and conditions, have a nature to impel in but one direc- 
tion, most of the forces working for, and all of them in, 
rightful life, such life, fully, for all the race, finally, must 
inevitably be attained. The destiny of the human race 
on earth is a fully natural, inevitable outgrowth of 
the human constitution ; and, with what knowledge we 
now possess, could, all, in character, have been foreseen 
in that constitution when the race with its first wonder- 
ing and wondrous individuals began its changeful career. 
Knowing that enjoyment, in and out of its means, is the 
only possible object of desire, with what is now known 
of human desires and their food, this career of mankind, 
from its commencement to its close, in character, could 
all have been perceived at the beginning of the career as 
the necessary production of these regulating desires, 
forces, in the gradual development of the race from its 
infantile ignorance to its manhood intelligence. And, 
finally, the great work of the race for the future is, under 
a further development of intelligence, first, to rightly 
organize society, then to make the machinery of human 
nature normal, and, lastly, as far as possible, to invigor- 
ate, sustain, and feed this " Image of God." 



PHRENOLOGY. 
NATURAL CHARACTER 



45 



Of.. 



%. 



Ill interpretation of character, degrees of development 
are hereiMica|edby numerals; which denota^om 1 to 
7; Ik respectively, small', moderate, average, full, vcry'largc. 



Size of the whale bra. 
as follows: A head 
little below where the 
Indivisibility round e* 
ally connected with i 
21 to 22 average ; 2 




cated, with some variation, 

20 inches in circumference, 

comes in contact with it, from 

to Parentiveness, is gener- 
brain ; 20 to 21 moderate ; 
ill; 23 to 24 very large. 



Names of Organs, $c.,and Degrees of Development. 



Size of Brain 

Nervous System . . . 

Vital System 

Muscular System. . . 
Physical Sexuality . 
Spiritual Sexuality . 

Parentiveness 

Friendship 

Physical Continuity 
Spiritual Continuity 

Vitativeness 

Executiveness 

Thoroughness 

Alimentiveness 

Provision ality 

Suppressiveness. . . . 

Cautiousness 

Approbativencss . . . 

Dignity 

Consistency 

Ecjuitiveiiess 



Decrees 



46 PTIPtElSrOLOGY. 



Hope 

Spirituality 

Veneration 

Benevolence 

Sublimity 

Perfectiveness 

Melody 

Representativeness . . . 
Spiritual Organization 
Physical Organization 
Spiritual Incongruity. 
Physical Incongruity . 
Spiritual Reason ality. 
Physical Reasonality. . 
Spiritual Similarity... 
1 Physical Similarity . . . 

Eventuality 

Locality 

Time. . 

Number 

Systcmality 

Color 

Force 

Distance 

Form 

Indivisibility 

Lan^ua^e 



Degrees. 



INDEX. 



The Human Brain — -Nervous System, Vital 


System, Muscu- 


lar System, . . . 


7 


Physical Sexuality 


. 10 


Spiritual Sexuality, . 


... 11 


Parentiveness 


. 11 


Friendship, 


12 


Physical Continuity, . 


. 12 


Spiritual Continuity, . 


12 


Yitativeness, ...... 


. 13 


Executiveness, 


13 


Thoroughness, . . . 


. 13 


Alimentiveness, . . . ■ . 


13 


Provisionality, 


. 14 


Suppressiveness, ... 


15 


Cautiousness, ..... 


. 15 


Approbativeness, 


16 


Dignity, 


. 10 


Consistency, ...... 


18 


Equitiveness, . 


. 18 


Hope, 


21 


Spirituality, ...... 


. 21 


Veneration, 


22- 


Benevolence, 


. 24 


Sublimity, . . . . 


20 


Perfectiveness, ..... 


. 26 


Melody, 


27 


Representativeness, .... 


. 27 


Spiritual Organization, . . . . 


28 


Physical Organization, 


. 28 


Spiritual Incongruity, . . 


29 


Physical Incongruity, .... 


. 29 


Spiritual Seasonality, .... 


30 


Physical Reasonality, .... 


. 30 


Spiritual Similarity, 


. 32 


Physical Similarity, ..... 


32 



48 INDEX. 

Eventuality, 33 

Locality, 34 

Time, . 34 

Number, 34 

Systemajity, . 35 

Color, ........... 36 

Force, ........... 36 

Distance, 40 

Form, 40 

Indivisibility, .40 

Language, .41 

Natural and Practical Character, . . . . 41 

Natural Character of, ........ 45 



